Shengjing Noble

Chapter 460: The Responsibility of Sheltering

When she returned to the Lu family, Su Lanyin had already wiped the tears from her face. As soon as she entered the door, she saw that the yard was surrounded by a group of guards.

"what happened?"

She hurried into the yard and saw Fu Mingheng sitting in the middle, sipping tea leisurely, with Su Lanxin and Fu Mingli standing next to him.

Su Shengyan and Su Shengyun stood in front of Lu Wanjun.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince suddenly led troops to surround the Lu family. I wonder what this means?" Su Lanyin walked forward and asked in a neither humble nor arrogant manner.

Su Lanxin on the side shouted angrily: "How dare you! You don't even show respect when you meet His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?"

Su Lanyin glared at her coldly, then bowed perfunctorily.

"Now, can you tell me, my lady?"

Fu Mingli said loudly: "Su Lanyin, why are you pretending to be confused? You deliberately concealed the crime of Su Shengming's trespassing into the palace and asked the emperor to release him. Do you think you are really fine?"

"Hand over Su Shengming immediately. He must be brought to justice today! Don't blame me for not reminding you. Trespassing into the palace is a serious crime. Be careful and punish you for harboring someone."

Su Lanyin knew that they would take action, but she didn't expect it to happen so soon. She had originally planned to fake Su Shengming's death, but now it seemed too late.

After hearing this, she quickly calmed down and asked in a reasonable manner, "The Fifth Prince was the first to rob a commoner girl, so should he also confess his crime and be punished first?"

"You, stop making trouble here!" Fu Mingli suddenly became Fu Meili and stepped aside feeling guilty.

Su Lanxin smiled and said, "Sister Lanyin, don't think we don't know you are trying to change the subject. We are all sensible people, so don't play dumb. If you know what's best for you, hand the person over quickly."

Su Lanyin also smiled at her and said mercilessly: "Who do you think you are? Are you worthy of calling me your sister? Don't think you are great just because you follow His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. You are just a nameless slave."

"you!"

Su Lanxin was hit in the sore spot in public, and she lost both face and dignity, and her momentum was also defeated.

Fu Mingheng suddenly clapped his hands and said with a smile, "Hahaha... you are really sharp-tongued. Sometimes I really want to cut off your tongue and see if you can still be so arrogant!"

Even though the other party was the prince, Su Lanyin's attitude did not change at all, and she was not cowardly at all.

She stood tall and straight, with her head held high. "It seems that I need to remind Your Highness that cutting off someone's tongue is against the law. The emperor is guilty of the same crime as the common people. What's more, the person you want to cut off the tongue of is a county lady appointed by the emperor."

"Don't use my father to scare me. You are just a small county lady. Even if you are a princess, you must hand over Su Shengming today!"

Su Lanyin tilted her head and looked at him with confusion: "Are you looking for my third brother? Why, he didn't come back?"

"What do you mean?" Fu Mingheng asked.

Lu Wanjun was extremely worried and stepped forward to ask, "Yinyin, why did you hide everything from me? Where is Shengming? Tell me how he is!"

Su Lanyin comforted her, "Mother, I just picked up my third brother and sister Huaizhi. I wanted to go shopping on the way, so I got off the car and let them go first. Could it be that they haven't come back yet?"

As she spoke, she winked at Lu Wanjun.

"he……"

Seeing her daughter's eyes, Lu Wanjun understood instantly.

Su Lanyin continued to pretend to act.

She was shocked at first, and then deliberately raised her voice and said, "Oh my God! Did Third Brother elope for love because you didn't agree with his marriage to Sister Huaizhi?"

"what!"

Lu Wanjun let out a howl, then collapsed to the ground and screamed at the top of her lungs.

"Third brother, where have you been? Do you want me to live? How can you leave me for a woman... my third brother..."

Su Shengyan and Su Shengyun felt embarrassed about this, but they joined in anyway.

"Oh, what should we do? When did they get together? I don't even know!" Su Shengyan said.

Su Shengyun said: "They fell in love at first sight, but mother despised Miss Song's background and was unwilling to help them get together. I think this time, she must have taken the opportunity to elope!"

Su Lanyin looked at Fu Mingli standing aside and angrily accused him, "Fifth Prince, look at what you have done. You have to compensate my Third Brother!"

Fu Mingli was stunned and asked in surprise: "What does this have to do with me? He must have fled because he was afraid of the crime!"

"It's your fault. If you hadn't created difficulties for them, their feelings wouldn't have become stronger. Now, in order to disobey mother, my third brother eloped with sister Huaizhi. You must find them back, otherwise I will go to the emperor to complain, saying that you stole my third sister-in-law and beat my third brother, forcing my third brother to take the risk and go to your house to save people, wuwuwu..."

"I...I didn't! Don't talk nonsense!"

Fu Mingli felt guilty, anxious and panicked after hearing what she said, and was completely at a loss as to what to do.

Seeing this, Fu Mingheng felt that he was not worthy of being appointed, and angrily asked, "Have you said enough?"

He roared, successfully stopping the noisy sounds around him.

He stood up, walked in front of Su Lanyin, and stared down at her condescendingly.

"Su Shengming broke into the palace with the intention of murdering the prince. This is a serious crime. I am kind-hearted and do not want to implicate the Lu family, but if you are unwilling to hand him over, then today I will have no choice but to arrest all of you and interrogate you one by one!"

Su Lanyin frowned and said, "Your Highness has no evidence, why do you want to arrest us? Aren't you afraid of being criticized by the world?"

"In order to catch the criminal, this is inevitable. I'll give you ten minutes to think it over. If you refuse to hand him over, don't blame me for being rude."

"Your Highness, the Lu family is here. You have brought so many people with you, so you can search freely. If you can find Su Shengming, we are willing to take the responsibility of shielding him."

She returned his gaze without flinching, calm and cool.

"Humph, if he was at the Lu family, you wouldn't have let Gusou search for him. So, you anticipated this step in advance and let them run away, right?"

Su Lanyin raised her eyebrows: "I don't understand what your Highness is saying."

"Don't think I'm so easy to fool. If I catch them, I will definitely execute them! And your Lu family will not have a good ending either."

"Okay, then go ahead and catch it, Your Highness. We'll be waiting for you."

Fu Mingheng stared at her without blinking, and then suddenly laughed.

"Very good, it seems that you are determined to fight to the end. Do you believe that even if I don't arrest you, I can still make you hand over the person obediently?"

"Oh? Then I'm curious, what does Your Highness want?"

Fu Mingli glanced at Su Shengyan and Su Shengyun, then raised the corners of his mouth in an evil smile.

"If the emperor knew that the Imperial Academy scholar and lieutenant general he selected were protecting the criminal Su Shengming, do you think their futures would be safe?"